Had My buckets worked on

[Knight]

Hey plowking,

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I don't mind paying him and getting a better job than I could ever do. Last fall he was working on a truck bed and had a piece of steel on the forklift moving it under the truck bed that was raised, he was walking up to secure it under the truck when the wind blew it off the forklift and hit him in the head.

He got a major concussion from this and missed all the harvest work he usually gets. The doctor said it will be another 1 to 1 1/2 years before he is full back and not getting headaches. I've been tipping him extra so he could get a free lunch or two for each job he does and he told me no one ever tips him.

He is a great wielder, one man shop in a small town about 7 miles from my house so that makes it nice also.

You're a good person. Nothing wrong with helping someone out.

 

[Timber]

I would have put a tooth bar on

 

[Ductape]

I would have put a tooth bar on

This was exactly my fist thought too.

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

We'll the way I use our buckets I like a smooth edge to work with.

I like to back drag to smooth and drag dirt and gravel. I also use the 3pt blade to finish it out.

I also use the buckets for snow removal and pulling it out from areas so I can get it with the blower.

 

[4shorts]

We'll the way I use our buckets I like a smooth edge to work with.

I like to back drag to smooth and drag dirt and gravel. I also use the 3pt blade to finish it out.

I also use the buckets for snow removal and pulling it out from areas so I can get it with the blower.

I'm like you that way. No point in having a bucket if the cutting edge isn't straight. Mine has a thick bolt on cutting edge which adds a lot of strength to the bucket and I added a section to the top of the bucket last winter so It could carry more snow seeing that's all I use it for.

Nice job on the bucket. Part of my business is Designing/Welding and Machining and I have to say your welding guy does nice work. Tell him I said so


My bucket mod is here:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/130266-bucket-mod.html

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

Hey 4shorts,

That bucket looks great, I asked him about a bolt on cutting edge, and he said just use up the one that is on there and then he would build us a better one. That way we will get our moneys worth out of the one that came on there.

He said all bucked really should come with a gusset for strength. I'll pass on the good thoughts, I'll see him this week to get hammer straps made for my draw bars.

 

[IH3444]

Just bolt on a new cutting edge, without teeth. Sure limits what you can carry in size.

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

If I've got something that big I'll put on the pallet forks. The buckets that came on the Case and the New Holland are not that large to begin with.

 

[AndyMA]

Thumper

I'm glad it did what you need. I have 6 types of buckets and would never do that to any of mine unless that piece bolted on and could be removed. I think it pretty much renders the bucket useless for me. Sorry to have to say that.

andy

 

[gordyy]

had a bucket on an old white tlb years ago the kind of got torn up in one of those (kid rider accidents) tore the bottom of the bucket off rebuilt but even with an oversized cutting edge we still had trouble bending the bottom when loading broken concrete slabs. finally did just that to the bucket never really had trouble with loading the bucket
however a clevis in that brace makes for one heck of an access point!!